Highest Life Expectancy

82.6

(Japan)

Lowest Life Expectancy

39.6

Swaziland

Average Life Expectancy

68.9
Map of Countries by Life Expectancy
Top 20 Countries by Life Expectancy

The data used in this dashboard is from the gapminder package in RStudio. The data is shown below. The reactable package has been used, which allows reader to search and filter.

The data is taken from R gapminder package which is sourced from the Gapminder Foundation.

A summary from the Foundation is included below from Wikipedia.

Gapminder Foundation is a non-profit venture registered in Stockholm, Sweden, that promotes sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by increased use and understanding of statistics and other information about social, economic, and environmental development at local, national, and global levels.

Gapminder was founded in 2005 by Ola Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund, and Hans Rosling. The name Gapminder was derived from the “Mind the Gap” warning messages on the London Underground.

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